vbulletin 5 optimization tips

[LogON]

Hello,

do you have some optimization tips for vbulletin 5?

I would like to make my site run faster

[Dave]

There are a bunch of things to optimize your server/forum:
- Are you using memcached/opcache/xcache? vBulletin 5 should support those modules.
- Are you using Apache as software to run your webserver? nginx is much better at handling lots of connections.
- Are you using MySQL? MariaDB is based on MySQL, a bunch of developers who worked on MySQL now work on MariaDB. I noticed better response times with MariaDB instead of MySQL.
- Did you optimize all of the images of your forum style? You can use this tool to optimize a bunch of images at the same time.
- Are you on shared web-hosting? Use a VPS/dedicated server and you will definitely notice a difference. Also to do most of the above suggestions you will need a VPS/dedicated server.

[LogON]

Optimizing favicon.ico file worked like a charm.

Thank you, Dave!

[Max Taxable]

Very good tips from Dave there, and there's also lots of vBulletin optimization tips and tricks, at link below with actual case studies and all.

OzzModz vBulletin Optimization Workshop

You can get very good results and do most of these optimization chores even if you are using shared hosting however.